Robert Scheer Quotes

• I teach at USC, and it’s obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don’t cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

  Robert Scheer

  Topics in College, History

  Tags in Anyone

• Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money.

  Robert Scheer

  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in Interest, Groups

• We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It’s just garbage. It’s insulting to the readers.

  Robert Scheer

  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in Come, Free

• And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. He’s an accountant from Chicago, doesn’t know anything about what newspapers are supposed to be about, and he made a decision to get rid of the column.

  Robert Scheer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Anything, Over, Made

• And new people come in, and it doesn’t go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can’t silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there.

  Robert Scheer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in New, End, Fire

• Even with the best of intentions, even when they’re very smart and knowledgeable – as opposed to George W., who is neither – it doesn’t seem to matter.

  Robert Treat Paine

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Smart, Best, Matter

• For example, I spent a lot of time with Reagan, both before he ran for governor and when he was running for president. As a print reporter without the cameras, I was able to really test the quality of their minds and their knowledge base.

  Robert Scheer

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Before

• For instance, Clinton who was unquestionably the smartest of the bunch I talked to – both the ones who made it and didn’t. He had a great interest in policy.

  Robert Scheer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Made, Both, Interest

• I talked to Reagan for about six hours all told. and Reagan was willing to go along with it. He didn’t look at his watch, and he didn’t allow his campaign aides to cut it off.

  Robert Scheer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Look, Off, Along

• I was able to do something that people can’t do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job.

  Robert Scheer

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Trying, Able

• I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

  Robert Scheer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reporter, Finalist

• I have broken a lot of stories.

  Robert Scheer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Broken, Stories

• It had run as a column – I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it.

  Robert Scheer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Strong, War

• I’ve been with the paper for almost 30 years.

  Robert Scheer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Almost, Paper

• The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

  Robert Scheer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Book, Issue, Welfare

• That means presenting the issues in certain ways that will appeal to those people and then becoming a prisoner of your own language and thought process. That has always happened – it’s just been intensified.

  Robert Scheer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thought, Means, Language

• The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.

  Robert Scheer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Times, Paper, Prize

• They know that the column resonates in the community. They know that people like it, and yet they don’t have room for one column once week that consistently got it right.

  Robert Scheer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Once, Week, Community

• The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that.

  Robert Scheer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Come, Words

• So this guy, Jeff Johnson, who is an accountant who cares nothing at all about a free press and cares nothing about journalism, he’s a right winger who supported the war, you know, who two years ago told people he couldn’t stand a word that I wrote.

  Robert Scheer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nothing, War

Robert Scheer (25)

Birth:	4th April, 1936
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist

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Robert Scheer is an American journalist who writes a column for Truthdig that is nationally syndicated by Creators Syndicate in publications such as The Huffington Post and The Nation.

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